Let's shake down these numbers into Primes, and factor-packing Composites! Det. Lewis Stinker: Number 1! She’s special! She ain’t a composite or a Prime! So, let’s leave her alone!

Prime Numbers are useful because they’re hard to find, especially BIG prime numbers, and Composite numbers with lots of factors are also useful: ever wondered why there are 60 minutes and a 24 ...

Again, that’s not possible. And their "formula" is based on the idea that two prime numbers multiplied together forms a composite integer. "For a long time, many said these integer roots grew ...

There are an infinite number of them, with all numbers greater than 1 being either a prime number or a composite of primes.